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Whenever our brains successfully pursue the ingenious strategy of creating a unified and dynamic inner portrait of reality, we become conscious. - The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger, March 16, 2009. ...
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Today, we possess sufficient cultural, economic and technological resources to introduce a better global society; one instructed by shared wisdom flowing freely through networked media, in a system previously considered impossible. A collective dest...
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The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. - Mark Weiser in his seminal paper “The Computer for the 21st Century,” first publi...
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just u...
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Social networking sites added the human factor to the network we had recently created: bi-directionality became multi-directionality, multi-diffusion. Blogs created the bourgeoisie of the Internet, and social networking sites opened it up and democra...
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs. If the total sch...
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What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for ...
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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer… Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so h...
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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family...
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Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. - Charlaine Harris ...
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. - J. G. Ballard in an interview in Heavy Metal, April ...
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Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish. If you want to woo the muse of the odd, don’t read Shakespe...
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Like the landscapes they negotiate, the subjectivities who operate within cyberspace also become patterns rather than physical entities. … The contrast between the body’s limitations and cyberspace’s power highlights the advantage...
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson ...
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Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one trait in common, which makes them also different from all other definitions: they are all self-definitions. Indeed, their authors are the members of the same rare species ...
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The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as tools for intellectual work and social activity, was not an invention of the mainstream computer industry or orthodox computer science, nor even homebrew computerists; ...
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An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. - The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup, February 15, 2000. ...
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I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. - Bjarne Stroustrup, 1990. ...
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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. - Bjarne Stroustrup ...
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. - Bjarne Stroustrup ...
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. - Andrew Grove ...
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All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. - David Brower ...
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin ...
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Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage. - Mike Trout ...
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in...
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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. - Freeman Dyson ...
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I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. - Jon Stewart ...
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Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? - Steve Polyak ...
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Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don’t quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there are no instructions, but there are also no failures, no right or wrong way of doing things. It’s a...
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Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. - Thoughts and Aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo, 1913. ...
